Category Archives: Basketball
Thursday scoreboard: Hawks advance to semis, Blazers knocked from title hunt
Girls basketball
River Ridge 46, Burlington-Edison 44
Down 43-42, Jazzlyn Brewster scored with 28 seconds remaining to give River Ridge a 44-43 lead and then hit two free throws with seven seconds left to give the Hawks a 46-44 victory and send them to the 2A semifinals at the SunDome in Yakima. Brewster finished with 12 points and Makenna Schultz matched her with 12 points of her own.
The Hawks will take on Mark Morris tomorrow night at 9:00 PM at the SunDome with a trip to the title game on the line.
Boys basketball
Franklin 78, Timberline 55
Donaven Dorsey scored 30 points but Franklin’s 31 point third quarter explosion buried Timberline and ended the Blazers’ title hopes with a 78-55 loss. Elijah Sanders added 13 points but the rest of the Blazers combined to scored just 12 points. Timberline had no answer for the Quaker’s 6-8 center Eugene Artison, who scored 23 points.
Timberline faces Seattle Prep tomorrow at 12:15 PM at the Tacome Dome in a consolation bracket game.
Women’s basketball
Western Washington 57, Saint Martin’s 48 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
The pesky defense of Saint Martin’s again held one of the best offensive teams in the country to well below their average but the offensively challenged Saints couldn’t capitalize and fell to #7 Western Washington 57-48 at Marcus Pavilion. Freshman Krista Stabler scored a career high 12 points for the Saints and Jordyn Richardson added 10 in the loss.
Men’s basketball
Northwest Nazarene 65, Saint Martin’s 61 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Saint Martin’s led by as many as 15 points in the second half but couldn’t hold the lead as Northwest Nazarene scored 43 second half points to top the Saints 65-61 in Nampa, Idaho. Will Bond and Evan Coulter each scored 14 points for the Saints.
College baseball
Lewis & Clark State 8, Saint Martin’s 2 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Also today (2/28): Saints baseball in the rain, women’s basketball hosts Western
College baseball
Saint Martin’s vs. Lewis & Clark State – The RAC
Doubleheader began at 1:00 PM
Women’s basketball
Saint Martin’s vs. Western Washington – Marcus Pavilion – 7:00 PM
Today (2/28): Blazers battle Quakers, Hawks face Tigers at state quarters
The Timberline boys and the River Ridge girls open up play at WIAA basketball tournaments today in Tacoma and Yakima. The Blazers face the Franklin Quakers at 3:45 PM at the Tacoma Dome and the Hawks battle Burlington-Edison at 7:15 at the SunDome in Yakima.
Donaven Dorsey and the 16-9 Timberline boys will face another nine loss team in Franklin. The Quakers, led by senior guard Patrick Ball and his 18 points per game, lost three of their six postseason games including two to tournament favorite Rainier Beach but advanced to the Tacoma Dome with a 76-64 win over Stanwood in regionals play on Saturday. The Quakers fell to Mercer Island in districts before the Blazers finished the Islanders off at regionals.
The game can be heard on two local outlets: 1240 AM KGY or on the Eli Sports Network
In Yakima, the River Ridge girls draw #8 ranked Burlington-Edison in their quarterfinal game at the SunDome The Tigers are 20-3 overall with their only losses coming to league champ Ferndale, red hot Lynden Christian early in the season and Blaine late in conference play. Since the loss to the Borderites, Burlington-Edison has won five in a row and four relatively easy games in the playoffs including a 53-22 dismantling of Olympic in regionals.
You can hear the game online from Skagit County based station KAPS.
Tesch heading to NCAA Championships; Munger honored by GNAC; Swain and Clark earn all-CCC honors
Tesch qualifies for NCAA Championships – Saint Martin’s senior Laura Tesch is heading to Birmingham to compete in the high jump at the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships. Tesch is the first female Saint to qualify for the the NCAA indoor championships since the school moved to the NCAA in 1998. The Renton native and transfer from Humboldt State is currently ranked 18th in Divison II with a school record jump of 5′-6.5″.
Another GNAC honor for Munger – Saints’ sophomore Sam Munger was named GNAC Player of the Week for the second time this season thanks to hitting .467 with five runs scored and four RBI in four games at College of Idaho over the weekend. Munger also went 1-1 on the mound this weekend, losing the first game on Friday to the Coyotes but coming back and pitching a complete game on Saturday.
Swain and Clark honored by CCC – Evergreen women’s basketball’s Danielle Swain was named first team all-conference by the Cascade Conference on Tuesday. The Black Hills alum scored 12.8 points per game, hauled in 8.4 boards per game and blocked 41 shots this season to set a new school career record with 112 over her three years on the court for the Geoducks. Swain, a junior for the Geoducks, will graduate in the spring and will not return to the basketball team next season.
Sammi Clark was also named all-conference honorable mention. The junior scored 11.1 points per game and dished out 3.8 assists per game.
Saturday scoreboard: Saints’ seniors deliver; Timberline shocks #2 Islanders, Hawks season ends
Men’s basketball
Saint Martin’s 84, Montana State-Billings 78 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Centralia 95, SPSCC 66 – Box score
Senior night at Saint Martin’s with their season on the line, Brady Bomber, Roger O’Neill and Eric Taylor delivered. The three seniors combined for 44 points, 30 in the second half, and sophomore Will Bond scored a career high 28 points in the Saints’ 84-78 win over Montana State-Billings at Marcus Pavilion.
The win, combined with Central Washington’s 30 point loss to Northwest Nazarene, keeps the Saints in the hunt for the sixth and final playoff spot. The Saints will need to beat Northwest Nazarene in Nampa and have Western Oregon knock off Central on Thursday to set up a game between the Saints and Wildcats in Ellensburg on Saturday with a trip to the playoffs on the line. Saint Martin’s hosts the GNAC playoffs March 6th through the 9th.
Will Bond’s second three pointer of the night put Saint Martin’s up by eight points, 19-11, at the 12:54 mark of the first half. Following a pair of buckets from Bond, Evan Coulter’s three put the Saints up 26-19 with nine minutes left in the half. The Yellowjackets would finish the half on an 18-9 run including Robbie Trabing’s layup at the buzzer to take a 39-35 lead into the locker room.
Jarrell Crayton’s layup on Billings’ first possession of the second half put them up 41-35 but two quick three pointers by Roger O’Neill and Eric Taylor tied the game at 41. But Sam Johnson’s jumper with 16:20 left to play gave the Yellowjackets their larget lead at 50-42.
But a 12-1 run over the next four minutes put the Saints up by three and they would hold the lead until Johnson surprised everybody by stepping out and hitting a long, straight away three pointer to give Billings a 60-58 lead with 9:30 to play. The two teams would trade the lead back and forth over the next eight and a half minutes.
Down 76-75 with less than a minute to play, Taylor’s drained a three pointer for a 78-76 lead and put the Saints up for good. Bomber, Bond and Taylor went 6-for-6 from the line in the final minute of play to ice the game and give the Saints the 84-78 win.
Seniors O’Neill and Taylor scored 13 points each in the second half to finish with 19 and 15 points respectively while fellow senior Bomber scored 10 points and dished out six assists. Bond scored 16 points in the second half en route to his career high 28.
Jarrell Crayton paced Billings with 19 points and David Arnold added 18.
Women’s basketball
Alaska-Fairbanks 67, Saint Martin’s 65 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Centralia 90, SPSCC 27 – Box score
Boys basketball
3A Regionals
Timberline 56, Mercer Island 55
Donaven Dorsey scored 27 points and Timberline held off #2 ranked Mercer Island’s final second attempt to continue their postseason run to the Tacoma Dome with a 56-55 win at Mount Tahoma High School. Elijah Sanders added 12 points for the Blazers who will head to state for the first time since 2004.
2A Regionals
Renton 73, River Ridge 57
District IV champion River Ridge’s bad luck draw of two loss Renton in the regional round came back to kill the Hawks. Renton held Brad Wallace to just 14 points and the Hawks had no answer for Jonathan Patterson, who scored 20. The loss ended River Ridge’s 14 game winning streak and their season ends at 17-7 overall. Wesley Coats added 12 points in the loss.
College softball
College of Idaho 6, Saint Martin’s 2
Saint Martin’s 6, College of Idaho 4
Today (2/23): Senior night at Saint Martin’s; Hawks, Blazers face tough regionals foes
Seniors Brady Bomber, Roger O’Neill and Eric Taylor play in their last home game at Saint Martin’s tonight when the Saints host Montana State-Billings at Marcus Pavilion. Tip-off is set for 7:00 PM.
Bomber has amassed over 700 assists in four seasons as the point guard for the Saints and it will be strange to see them without his steady presence next season.
O’Neill has started every game over the last two seasons and scored his 1,000 career point earlier this season. He averaged 13 points per game last season and leads the Saints at 15.5 points a game in his senior campaign.
Taylor has come off the bench as the Saints’ sixth man for most of his career and is averaging 10 points per game in that role this season. Taylor missed most of his junior season with an ankle injury but played in to many contests to qualify as a redshirt. You can read more about Taylor in this profile from the Saints’ Kyle Karnofski.
Last night it was the girls turn, today it’s the boys in the regional round of the state basketball tournament.
River Ridge, winners of 14 straight games and champions of 2A District IV, draw a ridiculously tough opponent when they take on Renton at 6:00 PM at Tumwater High School. Renton is 22-2 this season and started 19-0 before a late season loss to Kennedy and another to Sumner in the district playoffs. Tonight’s game can be heard on 1240 AM KGY.
After their district run fell just short in the title game, Donaven Dorsey and 15-9 Timberline heads to Tacoma to face 22-3 Mercer Island. The Islanders lost once to a team from Arizona, a one point loss to Bellevue in the regular season and a seven point loss to Lakeside in the district tournament. They are led by 6-8 senior Joe Rasmussen, who will be heading to Seattle Pacific for college.
In others regionals action around the Olympia area…
2A Regionals
Mark Morris vs. Anacortes – Tumwater – 4:00 PM
1B Regionals
Evergreen Lutheran vs. Sunnyside Christian – Timberline HS – 4:00 PM
Tulalip Heritage vs. Taholah – Timberline HS – 6:00 PM
Friday scoreboard: Second half comeback sends Hawks to Yakima
Girls basketball
2A Regionals
River Ridge 43, White River 35
Down 25-17 at the half, the River Ridge defense buckled down and allowed just ten points in the final 16 minutes and outscored White River 18-4 in the fourth quarter en route to a 43-35 win at Kent Meridian High School. The win moves the Hawks into the state’s final eight in Yakima next weekend.
Jazzlyn Brewster scored 17 points for the Hawks while the Hornets were paced by 15 points from SPSL MVP Kennedy Hobert.
Tonight (2/22): Hawks face Hornets in Kent; Tumwater hosts regionals doubleheader
The River Ridge girl’s basketball team travels to Kent tonight to face White River in the regionals round of the state basketball tournament. The Hawks are the only Olympia area girl’s basketball team remaining in the state tourney.
The Hawks are 18-5 this season and feature Jazzlyn Brewster and her 15 points per game. Rebecca Stevenson and Savannah McGill have emerged late in the season as options in the paint. After knocking off Washougal 54-38 in the first round of districts, River Ridge fell to #1 ranked Mark Morris 60-48 and faced two straight loser out games against Hockinson and Centralia. A 60-44 win over the Tigers moved the Hawks into the regionals round.
White River fell to Sumner in the West Central/SW Bi-District championhip game and are 21-4 this season. SPSL MVP Kennedy Hobert leads the Hornets but according to The Olympian, she is struggling with a wrist injury that limited her to 0-for-11 shooting in the district title game.
Tip-off at Kent Meridian High School is set for 6:00 PM.
Tumwater High School hosts a regionals doubleheader tonight featuring two of the top girls teams in the state…
WF West vs. Archbishop Murphy – Tumwater HS – 6:00 PM
Mark Morris vs. Washington – Tumwater HS – 8:00 PM
Thursday scoreboard: Saints go cold against Seattle Pacific and Anchorage
Men’s basketball
Seattle Pacific 60, Saint Martin’s 46 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Saint Martin’a led #5 Seattle Pacific 23-21 at the 6:30 mark in the first half but it would be the Saints last basket of the half as the Falcons took a 33-23 lead into the locker room with a 12-0 run. The Falcons extended their lead to 23 points before the Saints rallied to get within 12 points with three minutes to play. But it was too little, too late and Seattle Pacific moved to 20-3 overall with a 60-46 win at Marcus Pavilion.
Roger O’Neill scored 12 first half points but the Falcons defense buckled down and O’Neill managed to hit just one free throw the rest of the night to finish with a team high 13. Will Bond scored 10 points including the three pointer late in the game that cut the SPU lead to 12 and Brady Bomber dished out seven assists.
David Downs scored 20 points for the Falcons including his 1,000th point of his career and 6’4″ guard Riley Stockton pulled down 15 rebounds. SPU killed the Saints on the boards outrebounding them 48-23 scoring 21 second chance points. The Falcons also went 19-of-30 from the charity stripe on 21 SMU fouls. Seattle Pacific was called for just nine personal fouls.
The Saints fall to 8-15 overall and 4-11 in GNAC play.
Women’s basketball
Alaska Anchorage 76, Saint Martin’s 58 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Chelsea Haskey scored 22 points including 18 in the second half as the Saints shot 50% from the field in the final 20 minutes but were unable to overcome a 21 point halftime deficit and fell to Alaska Anchorage 76-58 in Alaska.
Tonight (2/21): Saints host #5 Seattle Pacific
Just two home games remain in the Saint Martin’s men’s basketball season starting tonight when the Saints take on #5 ranked Seattle Pacific at Marcus Pavilion. Tonight’s game is a “Black Out” and fans are encouraged to wear black and there will be a Harlem Shake video filmed at halftime.
At 4-10 in conference, the Saints still mathematically have a chance to make the GNAC Tournament but they are a long shot. They currently trail Central Washington for sixth place by three games with four games left to play including a matchup with the Wildcats on the final day of the regular season. Roger O’Neill is sixth in the GNAC scoring 15.6 points per game.
Seattle Pacific is 19-3 overall and 12-2 in conference play with both losses coming to #2 ranked Western Washington. The Falcons are led by David Downs’ 14 points per game and 5.5 assists per game while Jobi Wall is second in the NCAA Division II shooting 46.2% from behind the arc. SPU easily handled the Saints in their first meeting, an 82-54 victory at Royal Brougham Pavilion in Seattle.
Tip-off is set for 7:00 PM. If you can’t make it to Marcus Pavilion, you can watch the game and hear me on the call by clicking here.
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